China Focus: Discharged coronavirus patient recalls fortnight of ordeal

by Xinhua writers Lyu Qiuping, Liu Yide and Wei Jingyu HOHHOT, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Despite wearing a mask, Ge Lei (pseudonym) took several deep breaths upon stepping out of the hospital. She had longed for the taste of fresh air, free from the smell of disinfectant. A white-collar worker from Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Ge, 26, was excited about her Lunar New Year tour to Russia over half a month ago, imagining an ice dive at Lake Baikal and the northern lights in Murmansk. However, her trip was cut short at the border city of Erenhot in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region because she was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP). After two weeks of quarantined...